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Making a merged table for Login-Logout
- 6 years ago
Here is one way to do this. Below are 3 M queries with similar data as an example. To see how it works, just create a blank query, go to Advanced Editor, and replace the text there with the M code below (X3). The first two are just some example tables like your data.
// call this query "login" let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtQ31DcyMDJQ0lEytzIwACIFR18gJ7Q4tcgQSBsaGCjF6qCos0RXZwSkjeDqjPCaZ4ypDsM8kDoTkLpYAA==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t, Time = _t, Username = _t, Param1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Date", type date}, {"Time", type time}, {"Username", type text}, {"Param1", Int64.Type}}), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Event", each "Login") in #"Added Custom" //call this query "logout" let Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMtQ31DcyMDJQ0lEytzI0sDIwUHD0BXJCi1OLDIG0oYGBUqwOijqgKmNUhUZA2hSqEMiEIog2I5g2SysjTOPNQLpiAQ==", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t, Time = _t, Username = _t, Param1 = _t]), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Date", type date}, {"Time", type time}, {"Username", type text}, {"Param1", Int64.Type}}), #"Filtered Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Changed Type", each ([Date] <> null)), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Filtered Rows", "Event", each "Logout") in #"Added Custom" //call this query what you want let Source = Table.Combine({login, logout}), #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Event", type text}}), #"Sorted Rows" = Table.Sort(#"Changed Type",{{"Username", Order.Ascending}, {"Date", Order.Ascending}, {"Time", Order.Ascending}}), #"Added Index" = Table.AddIndexColumn(#"Sorted Rows", "Index", 0, 1, Int64.Type), #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(#"Added Index", "ForPivot", each if [Event] = "Login" then [Index] else null), #"Filled Down" = Table.FillDown(#"Added Custom",{"ForPivot"}), #"Added Custom1" = Table.AddColumn(#"Filled Down", "Records", each #"Filled Down"{[Index]}), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Custom1",{"Event", "ForPivot", "Records"}), #"Pivoted Column" = Table.Pivot(#"Removed Other Columns", List.Distinct(#"Removed Other Columns"[Event]), "Event", "Records"), #"Expanded Login" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Pivoted Column", "Login", {"Date", "Time", "Username", "Param1"}, {"Date", "Time", "Username", "Param1"}), #"Expanded Logout" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Login", "Logout", {"Time", "Param1"}, {"Time.1", "Param1.1"}), #"Removed Columns" = Table.RemoveColumns(#"Expanded Logout",{"ForPivot"}), #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Removed Columns",{{"Date", type date}, {"Time", type time}, {"Username", type text}, {"Param1", Int64.Type}, {"Time.1", type time}, {"Param1.1", Int64.Type}}), #"Renamed Columns" = Table.RenameColumns(#"Changed Type1",{{"Time", "Time In"}, {"Time.1", "Time Out"}, {"Param1", "Param1 (in)"}, {"Param1.1", "Param1 (out)"}}), #"Reordered Columns" = Table.ReorderColumns(#"Renamed Columns",{"Date", "Username", "Time In", "Time Out", "Param1 (in)", "Param1 (out)"}) in #"Reordered Columns"If this works for you, please mark it as the solution. Kudos are appreciated too. Please let me know if not.
Regards,
Pat
Hi amalm ,
There are many ways to do this. Probably one of the least technical and most manual would be to bring them in as separate queries - name one as Log In and one as Log Out. Remove the top line, make the first row headers. Then, merge the two based on User and Date. The "Log Out" title will automatically come in in front of the field names. It will look like this:
I would appreciate Kudos if my response was helpful. I would also appreciate it if you would Mark this As a Solution if it solved the problem. Thanks!